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Weblog System Features Compared

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the immovable-weblog-object dept.

prostoalex writes "The question of the best weblogging system out there arises quite often, especially after the new licensing scheme introduced by MovableType. Here's a rather detailed breakdown of currently popular blogging and content management systems. Out of 11 software packages, 10 run on any server with variations of Perl/PHP and MySQL/PostgresSQL, and one requires Windows and .NET Framework. 4 are licensed under GPL, 3 are under BSD. Mark Pilgrim explains why licensing is suddenly important."

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  1. The best blogging "system?" Please. by LesPaul75 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's amazing that people will actually pay for software that does nothing more than blog. Anyone ever heard of Notepad (or vi)? It has pretty much all the features of every popular blogging tool out there, and is probably much easier to use.

    I'm not being sarcastic... What's a blog? A bunch of text with fonts and an IMG tag here or there. If you can't figure out the insanely complex HTML required for that, then your blog probably isn't very interesting, anyway.

    And, for the super, uber-elite coders, you could write about three lines of CGI to handle all that intense formatting for you. Or just download one of the bazillion free scripts to do it. If you pay for blogging software, you are a sucker. But I'll sell you my blogging "system" if the price is right.